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We Didn’t Start the Fire
By Logan Taylor, Kyle Tardif, and Jason Taylor
Television 1950
• was a technological development
• Best way to spread media
• Was put in the song to show the advances in technology that we were able to do
• Without it we would not have the televisions that we have today and we would not get the news like we did today
• Fun Fact: people watch about 4 hours of TV a day
Marilyn Monroe 1950
• Social impact
• She had a relationship with Kennedy
• She was put in this on because she had a feminist impact on the war
• Her sex appeal made it more popular for today's movies and other things
• Fun Fact: changed her name to Norma to Marilyn Monroe
Joe Dimagio 1950
• He was important for the fact that he tried to turn the attention away from the war and made them like baseball
• Hade a social impact • He made the sport of baseball to become popular
and how people today like to watch it
Fun Fact: played for the Yankees with a contract of 100,000 contract 3 time MVP and all star
sugar ray 1951
• He had a social impact on the war • Some of his money went to the IRS which helped
pay for the weapons used in the Cold War • He was put in this song because he supported the
war and had a good social appeal with his boxing • He connects to today because he changed the
way boxing was looked at
• Fun Fact: was consider the best Welterweight Champion
Elvis Presley 1955
• Had a social impact • His music took some off the tension off the war and
made the people feel more fun and out going in a bad time like this he was also a pretty big anti-communist
• He was put in this song to show that he didn’t start anything and he just wanted to help them get through the tuff time
• He made music today different with the types of styles he used
• Fun Fact: he was the King of Rock and Roll
Trouble in the Suez 1956
• Suez was impacted as a military event • Was a military base that gave Britain a better
advantage over the sea trade and travel • It was but in the song for the reason of we were
not fighting just trying to help other people • It connects to today with the military statagies we
use now
• Fun Fact: its length was 100 miles width was 325 feet
Sputnik 1957
• It ushered a new political, military, and scientific development
• A satellite that was made to search other planets and it had a robot inside of it
• It was put in the song because of the technological development
• it made our space race today more than a dream but a achievement
• Fun Fact: it was the size of a basketball and 183 pounds
Space Monkey 1959
• The Space Monkey was a technological development
• Was a monkey in space • he was in the song because it was in the time for
the Space race between us and Russia • He connects to today because with out him we
would not go into space with real people
• Fun Fact: the first Space Monkey was named Gordo
Malcom X 1963
• He had a social impact
• He was a civil rights act enthusiast
• He was in the song because he was a major part in the history of whites and blacks
• Without him we would not have white and blacks schools and other things without his help
• Fun Fact: He enjoyed playing Pin Ball machines
Wheel of Fortune 1975
• It was a social Impact
• A game show where people could win some money
• It was in the song because it was a god game show back in the day during the cold war and a lot of people watched it
• With out this game show we would not have some of the new game shows that we have today
• Fun Fact: the famous wheel in the show weighs 2,400 Pounds